My friend Evan sent me a crazy link this week – to iYoga. Anyone who's interested in Yoga for Geeks should check this out... it's interesting stuff. I'm not sure what to make of it.

iYoga is a special purpose word processor with speech and timing capability. To create an iYoga class, you simply type text like this:
To begin, practice Mountain Pose for 10 breaths.
Feel the natural curve of your lower back and the even grounding of your feet against the Earth;
Because you control each word that iYoga speaks, your practice can be tailored to your needs, going beyond the repetitive instruction and music of CD's and DVD's. 

So it's software that allows you to create your own yoga classes to listen to. You can choose the voice, and your computer will soothingly (or not, depending on your voice choice) talk you through a lesson.

During a class with iYoga technology fades away as iTunes plays music in your sacred space and your Mac provides words of guidance from the pragmatic to the poetic.  

An interesting idea... I just can't imagine it for myself. I'd be interested to hear what others feel about the iYoga idea? My sense is that it requires a certain level of knowledge of the practice and the poses to begin with. But hey, I'm excited that there are developers out there working on this sort of thing!

It makes me feel like I really should get going with my YFG podcast I keep thinking about. I'm finally getting the audio skills down enough that it might be a possibility in the near future... Stay tuned. 

I am clearly far too addicted to the Firefox Session Saver plug-in, as evidenced by my current state of great distress after having it NOT work for me.

Firefox just crashed, and I was given the option of closing, reporting the error, or relaunching. I chose to relaunch, and apparently Session Saver doesn't work under those circumstances (though they promised me that nothing would stand in its way! Nothing, they said!). Hence me, sitting here staring in terror at my screen, which is missing 18 tabs full of the things I've been meaning to read/blog/deal with for the past long time. The tabs are an ongoing rotation, for me.

Gulp. Technology addiction is a scary thing, actually. On the plus side, I bought a guitar this week. The plan is more music, less Flickr. Whoo hoo!

Hooray for the DeSmogBlog... because it has afforded me the opportunity to try out another desktop blogging editor. I have used Qumana in the past, and was happy enough with it myself, but wanted something even more usable for the total non-geeks on the DeSmog team. So we're giving Ecto a whirl. Here's hoping.

(Looks like it has not imported all my tags... too bad. That would have been most excellent.)

How about images? Let me see... it does iPhoto importing. What about Flickr, though? Or other images hosted elsewhere online?

Guess I'll have to poke around a bit more. Anyone else got experience with this?